Eerie mystery: How did gravestones become walkway at Ann Arbor home?

Alan Warren | The Ann Arbor NewsBrian Darwin (left) and Bob Knight, of Knight's Grading & Excavating of Dexter, look at some grave headstones they uncovered while working on a sewer line at a home in Ann Arbor. The markers had been turned face down and used as a front walkway at the home.

Brian Darwin had pulled the nine granite pavers out of the ground Wednesday night.

But it wasn't until Thursday morning that the Knight's Grading & Excavating worker, who was readying a westside Ann Arbor home for a sewer line replacement, flipped one of the 100-pound slabs over.

"Beloved Wife, Mother Viola T. Bagnasco, 1901-1969."

Stunned, he turned over the rest of the stones: All were grave markers.